A wealthy Chinese-Burmese businessman had bought his kidney for 10 million Burmese kyat ($3,079), nearly twice the annual average urban household income in Myanmar, according to 2019 data from UN ...

In the shadow of Myanmar's brutal and bloody civil war, a rebel army with close ties to China and the illicit drug trade is spreading out and bulking up without a fight. Since the start of the ...

China has invested heavily in neighbouring Myanmar over the years, especially in its infrastructure – from ports and railways to the oil and gas sector – even after a military coup rocked the ...

At the time of the military coup of February 1, 2021, I was a lecturer at a university in Myanmar, deeply involved in my academic and research pursuits. The military takeover, however, marked the ...

The 22-year-old ethnic Rohingya is surviving on the kindness of fellow refugees in a camp near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – and trying to process the horrors she endured in neighboring Myanmar ...

GENEVA, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government has ramped up killings and arrests in an apparent bid to silence opponents and recruit soldiers in an escalating conflict, with tens of ...

BANGKOK: The death toll in Myanmar in the wake of Typhoon Yagi has jumped to 74, state media reported on Sunday (Sep 15). As of Friday evening the floods had "resulted in 74 deaths and 89 people ...

BANGKOK -- Myanmar's cash-strapped military regime has intensified its scrutiny of the nation's 580 labor agencies in a bid to make more money from overseas workers' remittances to address its ...

Myanmar was one of the last countries to be hit by Yagi after it passed over the Philippines, China, Vietnam and Thailand, leaving a trail of destruction and killing at least 300 people.

Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have held rallies in camps to mark the seventh anniversary of the military crackdown in Myanmar that forced them to flee. Refugees from ...

Sept 17 (Reuters) - Floods in Myanmar have killed at least 226 people in just over a week, state media reported on Tuesday, after heavy rains brought on by Typhoon Yagi battered the central ...